NGC 3434
NGC 3434
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
169 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 169 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3434 as it looked roughly 169 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 673Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 601Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 602Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3559Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2822Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3419ABarred spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 601Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 602Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3559Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2822Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3419ABarred spiral38 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).